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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

"A new section has been added to the SysV Initscripts section, discussing
the proper use of subsys locking. Even though Fedora packages should no
longer be using SysV Initscripts as a primary service mechanism, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and EPEL do. Additionally,
Red Hat points partners to the Fedora Guidelines when they build for RHEL.
[3]

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The review guidelines now reflect the use of sha256sum (instead of
md5sum) to confirm upstream source integrity.
[4]

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The PHP Packaging guidelines have been updated to include guidance about
when it is appropriate to have an explicit Requires on httpd & mod_php,
how to handle explicit Requires on PHP extensions, and how to handle a
Requires for a minimum PHP version.
[5][6][7]

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A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines,
covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros.
[8]

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A new section on the Documentation= field in systemd unit files (F17+)
has been added.
[9]

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A short section on the Group tag in Fedora packages has been added.
All current versions of Fedora (and their respective RPM versions) treat
the Group tag as optional. Packages may include a Group: field for
compatibility with EPEL, but are not required to do so.
[10]

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The RHEL conditionalization has been removed from the Python3 example
spec file, as it is no longer valid.
[11]

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These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).

Many thanks to Remi Collet, David Malcolm, Vit Ondruch, Lennart Poettering, Michael Scherer, Dave Sullivan, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.

As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
[12]"

Enclosure: Here is one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:[13][14][15]

FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders

I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the
upcoming FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012.

If you are planning to attend FUDCon and need a travel subsidy to do so,
the ticketing system is now open for those requests. Requests will be
accepted through August 15, 2012. Please note that funding requests
without a ticket will not be considered. Preference will be given to
attendees from the EMEA region who are actively contributing to Fedora,
and have detailed their participation plans for FUDCon in their request.

To place a subsidy request, please follow these steps:

1: Pre-register at
[3] - and
put an X in the $$$ column
2: Read about the funding request process and place a funding request
ticket in the FUDCon-planning ticket tracker here:
[4]

Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:

There are other events in Paris during this time period; most notably,
our first day of FUDCon will be taking place at the Open World Forum
conference, on the day in which the public is encouraged to participate
in and learn about open source projects. OWF had nearly 2000 attendees
last year. Accordingly, rooms might be in short supply as we approach
FUDCon; please, book your hotel as soon as possible, not only for
affordability purposes, but also so that you have a bed to sleep in. :)

We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette
Cite des Sciencesfor the nights of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of October.
However, this rate will expire at the end of August, and any remaining
rooms in our block will expire.

Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

"I'm happy to announce the general availability of our
status.fedoraproject.org site.

This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to
check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.

The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at
[3].

If you run into a problem or issue that is not reflected at
status.fedoraproject.org, please do report it to us in #fedora-admin on
irc.freenode.net or via ticket at
[4]
We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware
of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.

As with everything in Fedora Infrastructure, this application is open
source. Source is available from:
[5]
and is released under a GPLv2+ license.

This application is hosted at the link[6] to avoid any
issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "

fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)

Re-organized the links on the front page, and link to the new Update Feedback Guidelines

The submitter of an update can no longer effect the karma (Till Maas)

Fix duplicate status change email notifications. (Till Maas)

Mention age of updates in testing digest mails (Till Maas)

Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails (Till Maas)

Add X-Bodhi mail headers (Till Maas)

Gracefully handle private bugs (Cole Robinson)

Set the default request for new updates to 'testing' in the web form

Fix a bug in our critpath policy that occurs when a critical path update to a pre-release reaches the minimum amount of time in testing, but is unable to push to stable.

Fixed the input box alignment in the login box (Kalpa Welivitigoda)

Full list of changes since 0.8.7

Kalpa Welivitigoda (1):

fixed input box alignment issue in login box #579

Luke Macken (25):

Convert our tags_url to a byte string before passing it to urlgrabber.
Add a script to detect when older builds become the 'latest' in stable
Update our test suite to reproduce ticket [ticket:683]
Fix a bug in our critpath policy ([ticket:683]).
Set the default request for new updates to 'testing'
Clean up EOL buildroot overrides in our rmrelease tool (bz#818617)
Fix a busted unit test (test_push_EPEL_critpath_before_tested)
Add pkg_resources __requires__ hacks to bodhi tools to mitigate version

conflicts

Handle the case where a release doesn't have any overrides
Change our X-Bodhi-Update-Release header to use the short name
Apply a modified patch from Cole Robinson to gracefully handle private bugs (#639605)
Update our unit tests to assume submitters cannot alter karma
Merge branch 'bodhi1-fedmsg' into feature/bodhi1-fedmsg
Merge branch 'feature/bodhi1-fedmsg' into develop
Fix a typo in the metrics tool
Fix a typo in the new mail headers
Re-organize our links, and add one to the new update feedback guidelines
Clean up stray buildroot overrides
Version bump for 0.9.2
Our build script uses bz2
Merge branch 'release/0.9.2'

Sending messages with fedmsg.
No longer using fedmsg schema/validation.
fedmsg.ini -> fedmsg-config.py
More detail in the update.complete message.
More concise send_message calls.
Ignore dev db.
Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
Updates for the latest fedmsg. Getting tests passing.
Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
Ignore mashing fedora file.
Fixed what I think is a regression in login template.
Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
Update to test fedmsg config. Work with both tests and under WSGI.
Version bump for fedmsg in staging.
Only send the comment with a comment is added, not the whole update.
Using a "bodhi" user/group for mod_wsgi.
fedmsg+ssl changes to bodhi.spec.
Use modern fedmsg config format.
Disable message signing for bodhi tests.

Build F-18 collection packages for all language translators

Please build and push your package with latest translation file (e.g.
pull from Transifex/Zanata) for L10N QA test BY THIS FRIDAY 2012-08-31.
Your packages with latest translation will be composed into test live
image on 3-Sep Monday. Then various language translators worldwide will
test the image in their own languages. Any issue will be filed as bug.
This is only one chance for translators to check and modify Localization
quality of your packages by checking UI, and we need your help.

Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week

"Today at Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip Fedora 18
Alpha release by one week due to remaining open blocker bugs[3] and incomplete test matrices for Alpha [4][5][6]. Meeting's
full log is at [7].

As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks,
will be pushed out by one week.

The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Thursday Sep 06, same place
but different time (19:00 UTC, 3 PM EDT, 21:00 CEST

fedora-meeting).

If you have an accepted blocker bug, please try to fix it
as soon as possible to help us with Fedora 18 Alpha release!"

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